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Sister Souljah, born Lisa Williamson, is an American activist, film producer and bestselling author of urban fiction.

She also has a memoir to her name.

Born in The Bronx, New York, Sister Souljah was awarded a scholarship to attend Cornell University's Advanced Summer Program.

She also studied for a B.A. in American History and African Studies at Rutgers University in New Jersey, as well as the University of Salamanca, Study Abroad Program.

Passionate about writing just as much as she is about activism, Sister Souljah is best known for writing books such as The Coldest Winter Ever (1999), Midnight: A Gangster Love Story (2007), and No Disrespect (1994).

Her works lay emphasis on the experiences of African-American youth, exploring themes of social justice, politics, and personal empowerment.

More about Sister Souljah

Genres: Memoirs, Non-fiction, Urban Fiction

Born: 1964

United States

Website: http://www.sistersouljah.com/

Coldest Winter Ever

  1. The Coldest Winter Ever (1999)
  2. A Deeper Love Inside: The Porsche Santiaga Story (2012)
  3. Life After Death (2021)

Midnight

  1. Midnight: A Gangster Love Story (2007)
  2. Midnight and the Meaning of Love (2010)
  3. A Moment of Silence (2015)

Non-fiction

  1. No Disrespect (1994)

Omnibus Books

  1. The Sister Souljah Collection 1 (2013)
Non-fiction

Detailed book overview

Coldest Winter Ever

The Coldest Winter Ever

I came busting into the world during one of New York's worst snowstorms, so my mother named me Winter. Ghetto-born, Winter is the young, wealthy daughter of a prominent Brooklyn drug-dealing family. Quick-witted, sexy, and business-minded, she knows and loves the streets like the curves of her own body. But when a cold Winter wind blows her life in a direction she doesn't want to go, her street smarts and seductive skills are put to the test of a lifetime. Unwilling to lose, this ghetto girl will do anything to stay on top.

Author: Sister Souljah
First Release: 1999
ISBN: 978-0743270106
Publisher: Emily Bestler Books
A Deeper Love Inside: The Porsche Santiaga Story

A Deeper Love Inside is written in the words of Porsche Santiaga, Winter’s sharp-tongued, quick-witted younger sister. Porsche worships Winter. A natural born hustler, Porsche is also cut from the same cloth as her father, the infamous Ricky Santiaga.

Passionate and loyal to the extreme, Porsche refuses to accept her new life in group homes, foster care, and juvenile detention after her wealthy family is torn apart. Porsche—unique, young, and beautiful—cries as much as she fights and uses whatever she has to reclaim her status.

Author: Sister Souljah
First Release: 2012
ISBN: 978-1439165324
Publisher: Emily Bestler Books
Life After Death

Winter Santiaga hit time served. Still stunning, still pretty, still bold, still loves her father more than any man in the world, still got her hustle and high fashion flow. She’s eager to pay back her enemies, rebuild her father’s empire, reset his crown, and ultimately to snatch Midnight back into her life no matter which bitch had him while she was locked up. But Winter is not the only one with revenge on her mind. 

Simone, Winter’s young business partner and friend, is locked and loaded and Winter is her target. Will she blow Winter’s head off? Can Winter dodge the bullets? Or will at least one bullet blast Winter into another world? Either way Winter is fearless. Hell is the same as any hood and certainly the Brooklyn hood she grew up in. That’s what Winter thinks.

Author: Sister Souljah
First Release: 2021
ISBN: 978-1982139148
Publisher: Emily Bestler Books

Midnight

Midnight: A Gangster Love Story

Raised in a wealthy, influential, Islamic African family, Midnight enjoys a life of comfort, confidence, and protection. Midnight's father provides him with a veil of privilege and deep, devoted love, but he never hides the truth about the fierce challenges of the world outside of his estate. So when Midnight's father's empire is attacked, he sends Midnight with his mother to the United States.

In the streets of Brooklyn, a young Midnight uses his Islamic mind-set and African intelligence to protect the ones he loves, build a business, reclaim his wealth and status, and remain true to his beliefs.

Midnight, a handsome and passionate young man, attracts many women. How he interacts and deals with them is a unique adventure. This is a highly sensual and tremendous love story about what a man is willing to risk and give to the women he loves most. Midnight will remain in your mind and beat in your heart for a lifetime.

Author: Sister Souljah
First Release: 2007
ISBN: 978-1416545361
Publisher: Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Midnight and the Meaning of Love

Powerful and sensual, Midnight is an intelligent, fierce fighter and Ninjutsu-trained ninja warrior. He attracts attention wherever he goes but remains unmoved by it and focuses on protecting his mother and sister and regaining his family’s fortunes. When Midnight, a devout Muslim, takes sixteen-year-old Akemi from Japan as his wife, they look forward to building a life together, but their tumultuous teenage marriage is interrupted when Akemi is kidnapped and taken back to Japan by her own father, even though the marriage was consummated and well underway.

“There’s not one drop of inferiority in my blood,” Midnight says as he first secures his mother, Umma, and sister, Naja, before setting off on a global journey to reclaim his wife. Midnight must travel across three countries and numerous cultures in his attempt to defeat his opponent. Along this magnificent journey he meets people who change him forever, even as he changes them. He encounters temptations he never would have imagined and takes risks that many a lesser man would say no to, all for the women he loves and is sworn to protect.

Author: Sister Souljah
First Release: 2010
ISBN: 978-1439165362
Publisher: Atria/Emily Bestler Books
A Moment of Silence

Handsome, young, Muslim, and married to two women living in one house along with his mother, Umma, and sister, Naja: can Midnight manage all that he has on his plate? 

He is surrounded by Americans who don’t share or understand his faith or culture, and adults who are offended by his maturity, intelligence, and his natural ability to make his hard work turn into real money. He is calm, confident, and cool, Ninja-trained and powerful, but one moment of rage throws this Brooklyn youth into a dark world of dirty police, gangs, guns, drugs, prisons, and dangerous inmates. Everything he ever believed, every dollar he ever earned, and all of the women he ever loved—including his mother—are at risk.

Will his manhood be taken, broken, or altered? Can he maintain his faith? Outnumbered, overruled, and deeply envied—how can he possibly survive? Will the streets convert him? What can he keep? What must he lose?

Author: Sister Souljah
First Release: 2015
ISBN: 978-1476765990
Publisher: Emily Bestler Books

Non-fiction

No Disrespect

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, rapper, and activist—Sister Souljah uses her passionate voice to deliver what is at once a fiercely candid autobiography and a survival manual for any Black woman determined to keep her heart open and her integrity intact in modern America.

Each chapter of No Disrespect is devoted to someone who made a difference in Sister Souljah’s life—from the mother who raised her to the men who educated (and mis-educated) her about love—and each bares a controversial truth about the Black condition in America: the disintegration of families; the unremitting combat between the sexes; and the thousand and one ways in which racism continues to circumscribe how Black people see themselves and treat one another.

The result is an outspoken and often courageous rejoinder to the pieties of race, class, and gender by a writer who is at once wise, bawdy, brutally funny, and as sensitive a lightning rod in a thunderstorm.

Author: Sister Souljah
First Release: 1994
ISBN: 978-0679767084
Publisher: Vintage

Omnibus Books

The Sister Souljah Collection 1

Three unforgettable novels in one by New York Times bestselling author Sister Souljah:

The Coldest Winter Ever

I came busting into the world during one of New York's worst snowstorms, so my mother named me Winter. Ghetto-born, Winter is the young, wealthy daughter of a prominent Brooklyn drug-dealing family. Quick-witted, sexy, and business-minded, she knows and loves the streets like the curves of her own body. But when a cold Winter wind blows her life in a direction she doesn't want to go, her street smarts and seductive skills are put to the test of a lifetime. Unwilling to lose, this ghetto girl will do anything to stay on top.

Midnight: A Gangster Love Story

Raised in a wealthy, influential, Islamic African family, Midnight enjoys a life of comfort, confidence, and protection. Midnight's father provides him with a veil of privilege and deep, devoted love, but he never hides the truth about the fierce challenges of the world outside of his estate. So when Midnight's father's empire is attacked, he sends Midnight with his mother to the United States.

In the streets of Brooklyn, a young Midnight uses his Islamic mind-set and African intelligence to protect the ones he loves, build a business, reclaim his wealth and status, and remain true to his beliefs.

Midnight and the Meaning of Love

Powerful and sensual, Midnight is an intelligent, fierce fighter and Ninjutsu-trained ninja warrior. He attracts attention wherever he goes but remains unmoved by it and focuses on protecting his mother and sister and regaining his family’s fortunes. When Midnight, a devout Muslim, takes sixteen-year-old Akemi from Japan as his wife, they look forward to building a life together, but their tumultuous teenage marriage is interrupted when Akemi is kidnapped and taken back to Japan by her own father, even though the marriage was consummated and well underway.

Author: Sister Souljah
First Release: 2013
Ebook: B00AYIDRIU
Publisher: Atria/Emily Bestler Books